A Christianity that gets you into Heaven, while also allowing you to continue living however you want to here on earth... is a Christianity foreign to the New Testament.
The Gospel changes who you are, but it also changes how you live!
Whether or not (and my bet not) the threat of resuming the full-spectrum campaign is real, Tehran doesn't believe it is.
Vance's months of bootlicking, before finally producing the MOU humiliation, have made another confrontation with Iran both inevitable, & inevitably costlier
@DastDn I think it’s @JonahDispatch who said shamelessness is a superpower.
I’m old enough to remember when rape allegations and taped admission of sexual assault were going to force Trump to drop from the race. Different times.
I really hated the language of rehabilitation that was used around Platner
There are many people out there who show true regret and repentance and who need forgiveness and reconciliation
By giving false grace to this obviously unrepentant man, they spit on the idea of real grace and on the value of repentance. They made the world a worse place and they didn't even get anything out of it.
@KenGardner11 Is it just me, or does this seem more true than ever? I realize the olden days of decorum, integrity, “family values,” etc. were mostly pretense. I miss the pretense.
You should be so proud this kept him in the race an extra month and revictimized someone. Expertly constructed. You knew the real story, lured Fifield with it, made her the face of what you printed, surrounded her testimony with campaign spin, and downplayed the other accusers, thereby you bought him a whole four weeks and a day.
Declaration of Independence is an aspirational document, committing us to the permanent pursuit eternal values that can never be perfectly embodied by a human, and thus inescapably flawed, society, but advance us in striving.
It is really remarkable how unhappy Ilhan Omar is with the country that provided her with a refuge from a Hobbesian nightmare of the place she was born in, and extended her every assistance to rise all the way to the top tier of the political elite.